You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone

Well, it’s official. The University of Chicago (where Big Guy used to lecture on his version of Constitutional Law and where Lady M used to…well, I’m not really sure what she did as Vice President for Community and External Affairs, butt I do know she didn’t need her law license to do it) has decided to demolish the childhood home of Ronald Reagan. To build a parking lot.

What do you say we give it a send off with a little travelling music? (h/t: Jackie Gleason)

Big Yellow Taxi: Joni Mitchell

 

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel,

 

 a boutique

and a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum

 You can take it away now. Don’t worry Wee Won, you can visit the tree whenever you want

And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Welcome to the Big White, sorry about the surcharge; it’s the Republican’s fault…sequester cuts you know.

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

 
Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT  now

Give me spots on my apples

Those “spots” still look like Karl Marx to me

But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

 
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Don't it always seem to go 
you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Future Children Obama Ad

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

And then, just like that, it all came tumbling down. The end?

I think not.

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